Pope warns vs debt burden on people

Vatican City — Pope Francis, the Argentine head of the Catholic Church, on Wednesday warned governments struggling with debt not to impose upon their populations "deprivations incompatible with human rights."

"After a poorly managed globalization, after the pandemic and the wars, we find ourselves facing a debt crisis that affects mainly countries in the south of the planet," the 87-year-old said in Spanish during a Vatican meeting on debt in the Global South.